136 SHAKESPEARE'S [GRASSHOPPER. 



THE earth found in or about a man or woman's skull is 

 a singular depilatory, and fetcheth away the hair of the 

 eyebrows. As for the Grass or weed that groweth therein 

 (if any such may be found) it causeth the teeth to fall out 

 of the head with chewing only. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xxviii. ch. iv. p. 302, G, 



FIVE-LEAVED Grass, through Jupiter's force, doth resist 

 venom or poison. Whereof if one leaf twice every day, 

 morning and evening, be drunken with wine, it is said to 

 put away the quotidian ague. Three leaves the tertian 

 ague. And four leaves the quartan ague. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. iii. 45. 



THE fine Grass which groweth upon the banks of [the 

 Dove] is so fine and batable [luxuriant], that there goeth 

 a proverb upon the same ; so oft as a man will commend 

 his pasture, to say that there groweth no better feed on 

 Dove-bank. Holinsbed, "Description of England," p. 98. 



Grasshopper. 



ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 4, 60. 



THEY never alter their place, or at least very seldom ; 

 or if they do, they are ever after silent, they sing no 

 more ; so much doth the love of their native soil prevail 

 with them. If clay be not dug up in due time, it will 

 breed Grasshoppers. The Grasshoppers abounding in the 

 end of spring do foretell a sickly year to come. Often- 

 times their coming and singing doth portend the happy 

 state of things. What year that few of them are to be 

 seen, they presage dearness of victuals, and scarcity of all 

 things else. Mouffet, " Theatre of Insects," bk. i. ch. xvii. 



V. Locust. 

 Griffin. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. I, -232. 



A GRIPE is accounted among volatiles. And the Gripe 

 is four-footed, and like to the eagle in head and in wings ; 

 and is like to the lion in the other part of the body, and 



